Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lostinrates wrote: »

Surely that means she is indeed lucky?

LOL

If she ever wants to get rid of old ones to make room for more i will receive them gratefully.

I think you'd have to pry them from her cold, dead, fingers LIR.

We're at the point where old pairs of Louboutins get sent away to the great Louboutin healer in the the sky.... (well actually a specialist repair place) for sole repainting, re-heeling and the best job they can do on other repairs.

Which is almost as bliddy expensive as the shoes themselves.

lostinrates

See, i love my shoes, and repair them, but not that much. Ime the expensive ones are not more comfortable, though they are better made and better looking often enough.

silvercar

I don't care much about shoes or handbags, jewellery and nails are my thing.

silvercar

NHS beaurocracy:

I got to the GP weeks ago and get told, could be nothing come back if it doesn't go away.

So I go back and get referred for a scan. Scan privately and the results are back with the GP within 48 hours. Except there are no appointments with the GP for 4 weeks!:mad: So I ask if the GP has seen the results, "Not yet".:mad: So I make an appointment with a different GP with the same practice, get to the appointment and they are running 1 hour late.:mad: The GP is then forced to read the scan report during the appointment (it stillnot having been reviewed :mad:) and I then get referred to a consultant. Make consultant appointment and go to surgery to collect referral letter to find the admin is running behind and it is taking over a week to right referral letters.:mad: So I go and see the consultant anyway and tell him the letter is in the system.

That is 5 x:mad: fails from the NHS.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

I don't care much about shoes or handbags, jewellery and nails are my thing.

If those four are the choice from which you can have two, i would choose shoes and jewellery.

I have very little real jewelery. My wedding ring. A spanish bracelet. My mothers wedding ring. A cheapy opal ring. Think everything else is fake.....not sure. I have some loose stones, which one day i would like made into rings by the jeweler who made my wedding ring, to stack with that, and to wear on middle fingers.....but not till we have the house more functional.

My mother loves jewellery and my dad didn't believe in it, so my sister will inherit all of my mother,s stuff apart from the wedding ring, becuas eit predates her marriage to dad.....part of why she wanted to give me her wedding ring.

I love, love,love, opals, particularly clear or just milky ones with just orange fire in them. I like the multi coloured ones, but with pinpricks of fire, not moasaic opf fire so much.

They look like they are magical to me, I get mine out to enjoy sometimes, but they are very cheap ones. I have a couple of cheap yellow ones that i would like made into a pendant. Maybe if pn ever goes into jewellery making i can get a price for that from her.

Its ironic, that i married someone who didn't give me an engagement ring......i have not accepted a couple of lovely rings. But in a way dh new me better, that i would love it but curse the value locked into it...and would have wanted to choose my own.:p

(he did give me one later, which HE lost, because he did not like where i had left it so PUT IT SOmEWHERE SAFE. He has a habit of this...moving my stuff, and it does risk causing a row. Because my memory is so bad i need to stick to routine. Dh is highly paranoid about stuff on show, and goes round the house hiding stuff. If people break in, i tell him, they will open draws and look under the side board.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lostinrates wrote: »

See, i love my shoes, and repair them, but not that much. Ime the expensive ones are not more comfortable, though they are better made and better looking often enough.

Funnily enough, as much as I like to moan about them, I do actually understand it.

Mrs McT has the same idea about better clothes and shoes as I do. We keep a fair few in our wardrobes, wear them judiciously, and look after them well.

But also have a lot more mid-level and ultimately disposable stuff for everyday abuse.

I've got pairs of Church's and Loakes that are now pushing 10 years old and on their 3rd trip to the shoe doctor. I also wear shoes from the high street that will be binned within 2 years.

I'm not so good with older suits or shirts, as I just can't fit in anything from 10 years ago. But I'd be happy to wear them if I could.

Likewise Mrs McT still fits in and sometimes wears relatively timeless vintage items from 2 or 3 decades ago.

It's a funny thing, fashion. Seems like most things come back into style eventually anyway.

lostinrates

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

Funnily enough, as much as I like to moan about them, I do actually understand it.

Mrs McT has the same idea about better clothes and shoes as I do. We keep a fair few in our wardrobes, wear them judiciously, and look after them well.

But also have a lot more mid-level and ultimately disposable stuff for everyday abuse.

I've got pairs of Church's and Loakes that are now pushing 10 years old and on their 3rd trip to the shoe doctor. I also wear shoes from the high street that will be binned within 2 years.

I'm not so good with older suits or shirts, as I just can't fit in anything from 10 years ago. But I'd be happy to wear them if I could.

Likewise Mrs McT still fits in and sometimes wears relatively timeless vintage items from 2 or 3 decades ago.

It's a funny thing, fashion. Seems like most things come back into style eventually anyway.

No, i understand the. Taking care of stuff, so do we, but not the cold dead hands bit. .

I don't buy many clothes etc now.....ennui and low self esteem combo. I have some very beautiful clothes i was given to be seen in, i love them, will never sell them, even if only one leg fits in them now. They make me happysad. Or sadhappy. I also have some vintage stuff ...whoch i also cannot wear now,:A not least because my mother was also given clothes to be seen in, and while she is a lot shorter than me, i got the better legs lol, so. Lots worked on me too.

Horses and chickens and dogs don't really care what i wear. And short of a furcoat which might come in handy five months of the year not many expensive and beautiful clothes are that useful to me atm.


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But i have argued in the past that beautifuil clothes are a way the normal person can buy art. I will never afford a stubbs, a turner, an emin or a dali, but with some time saving i could buy a chanel, an hermes, a Vivenne westwood or some laboutins. If i came from a different background i would probably be less interested. Animals, and dh etc come before clothes and shoes and jewellery. otherwise i would have no horses and dogs and cats and be dripping in high carat golt and sparklies and high heels, i guess i made my choices!

sss555s

I love high heels, platforms, painted nails and nice dresses, but I just don't get much chance to wear them, unlike Dave

We've had hands, fingers, countryside and houses. What brave woman is going to post a picture of her shoe while wearing it? :A

Do you all paint your toenails?

lostinrates

sss555s wrote: »

I love high heels, platforms, painted nails and nice dresses, but I just don't get much chance to wear them, unlike Dave

We've had hands, fingers, countryside and houses. What brave woman is going to post a picture of her shoe while wearing it? :A

Do you all paint your toenails?

I might dig out my old shoes and snap them for viva to snigger at. I cannot see how i could phtograph it while wearing it, unless using a mirror......which might not be possible.

I usually wear toenail varnish. It drives dh wild.:D he especially likes it when its chipped for some reason. I don't feel properly done unless toenails are painted, but am ok with nude fingernails, better when they are longer and in decent condition.

sss555s

lostinrates wrote: »

I might dig out my old shoes and snap them for viva to snigger at. I cannot see how i could phtograph it while wearing it, unless using a mirror......which might not be possible.

I usually wear toenail varnish. It drives dh wild.:D he especially likes it when its chipped for some reason. I don't feel properly done unless toenails are painted, but am ok with nude fingernails, better when they are longer and in decent condition.

Your pictures are usually well thought out, i'm sure you could manage it :A

I still don't get that "chipped" fetish your DH is going gaga for.